Foster Care Quotes

• Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

  Bruce Willis

  Children, Fall, Hero

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• I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

  Christopher Darden

  Struggle, Book, Kids

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• If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.

  Joyce Meyer

  Children, Years, Adults

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• More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

  Richard Neal

  Children, Fall, Safety

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• Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

  Dave Pelzer

  School, Care

  "The Privilege of Youth". Book by Dave Pelzer, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2004.

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• I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Care, Honest

  "Mary J. Blige Won't Adopt". people.com. September 24, 2009.

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• In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.

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• Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

  Leigh Anne Tuohy

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "'Blind Side' Story's Real-Life Happy Ending: Super Bowl Victory". abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2013.

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• An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

  Doc Childre

  Children, Compassion, Parent

  Doc Lew Childre (1995). “A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family”, Heartmath Llc

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, What If

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• Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. Marcus, my husband and I sought to assist families during difficult times. We aren't perfect people, nor are we a perfect family, but these children didn't expect us to be either. They needed a loving home and care, and we tried our best every single day.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Home

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a lot to do - we know that training workers and parents, reducing caseload size, developing therapeutic foster care, strengthening kinship care, and putting more emphasis into preventive care are all solutions. Unfortunately, if a child is in a situation where removal from the home becomes neccessary, there's already been trauma. Putting a traumatized child into a "system," not a home, with strangers is creating a perfect storm for further trauma.

  Rachel Lloyd

  Children, Home, Perfect

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• Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Adoption, Care

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Children, Care

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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• Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

  Nia Vardalos

  Daughter, Mother, Country

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• Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Challenges, Care

  "Michele Bachmann on Faith, Family". Interview with Isabel Lyman, www.christianpost.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

  Jason Gann

  Brother, Cat, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Children, Needs, Care

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.

  Nathan Winograd

  Animal, Birth Rate, People

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• I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

  Bruce Willis

  Ideas, Giving, Hollywood

  "'I'm A Democrat', Insists Willis". www.contactmusic.com. September 19, 2006.

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